Adding Extensions to Diatonic 7th Chords

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Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Any Style

Excerpt: Hi guys! So this month we'll once again stray from Licking Up the Modes. Although, what we're covering in this tutorial directly relates to the modes and is very helpful. If you're unfimiliar with the term "diatonic", this basically meens the notes that exsisit within the given key, in this case, G major. Off of each scale degree we have a chord that exist...

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Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Any Style

Excerpt: There is are a couple basic rules to follow when thinking about which extensions can be used. (but rules are meant to be broken :) .....sometimes) #1 extension notes cannot be a half step above a chord tone. #2 extension notes should not create a tritone (b5) with a chord tone. With our tonic chord or "one" chord, we have two extensions that are available...

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Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Any Style

Excerpt: Now onto our "two" chord (ii).  The chord tones discussed here will directly relate to the matching mode, dorian. In this case A dorian because the ii chord of Gmaj is Amin7. A - B - C - D - E - F# - G (A -  B  -  C  -  D  -   E  -  F#  - A) 1 - 2 - b3 - 4 - 5 - 6 -b7 (- 8 - 9 - b10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - ...

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Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Any Style

Excerpt: The iii chord has only one extension and the matching mode is phrygian, in this case B phrygian. As you can see a knowledge of the modes can come in handy for this tutorial. Hopefully the explanation in the previous video will help you to understand the relationship between the chords with their matching mode. In phrygian we have 1 - b2 - b3 - 4 - 5 - b6 ...

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Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Any Style

Excerpt: Now onto our final three chords! Starting with the V chord. The V chord also has no avoid notes, although, some people might avoid the 11 because it creates a tritone between the 11 and 7 but plenty of people include the 11. The V chords matching is mixolydian which is as follows: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - b7  Extensions - 9, 11, & 13 Avoid note...

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Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Any Style

Excerpt: This exercise is just running through each shape in the order seen on the tab below. Have fun!

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